PEL Presents NEM#257: Josh Joplin Doesn't Look Back… Until Now
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What is the story behind the Silver Anniversary re‑recording of “Camera One”?
You are listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. My guest for episode 257 is Josh Joplin. He has deep folk roots, but for the most part, his music falls into the category of rock singer-songwriter, including what you're hearing now, Camera One, his big hit from the 2001 album Useful Music, which just got a silver anniversary rework slash reissue. So in fact, the version you're hearing right now is the newly recorded version. Before this, he had three albums in the 90s, and after this, he's released seven more albums, so about 11 in total, plus some EPs and things. We're discussing Goodbye Berlin from his last full album, Gap Year 2025, History of I Do from Figure Drawing 2023, Juniper from Boxing Nostalgic from 1997, and we'll conclude by listening to High, Low, and Wide from the self-titled album by
Among the Oak and Ash in 2008. Learn more at joshjoplingroup.com. Learn more about this podcast at nakedlyexaminedmusic.com or support the effort, making your experience ad-free and getting my episode notes at patreon.com slash nakedlyexaminedmusic. I will play a little bit of camera one. Of course, your big hit, but this is the 25th anniversary complete re-recording, right? It's the silver anniversary master, but it's not just a remastering. It's
a silver anniversary master. Yeah. Complete
re-recording. And is that just because you don't own the originals and you want to be able to license it for commercials and get all the money? Is that, that's the normal reason people re-record.
Yeah.
That is a part of all of this journey. I have been lucky enough to get most of my recordings back, which most musicians can't do. But it's more about celebrating this summer, the 25th anniversary. So we just all figured, let's do this. And that's the majority of the reason we're doing it. But the benefit is, yeah, I own this version.
So we want to get pretty quickly to, well, the latest full album besides this complete, useful music, Silver Anniversary Sessions, which is sort of what we're promoting here. But the last album, complete new materials, 2025s, is it just pronounced gap year? G-P-Y-R? Okay. Yep,
gap year.
Goodbye Berlin, the single I had picked from that. Do we want to see just a little bit about the journey from your hit in, what, this was 2001? Am I doing the math right? Yes.
Yep.
that I saw you recorded three albums in the 90s, which are not really even on the streaming services. You have a group compilation from two of them, not from the first.
It's basically just a compilation of the two records we did very early days. We started basically as a group that I was going to pay everybody to just play music with me. And then it just evolved into the group. And in that time span, we were sort of recording music and putting out records and things had sort of evolved into where we really were a band and regretfully called Josh Joplin Group or Josh Joplin Band at that time, you know, because that insinuates that it wasn't a band. It was just me paying people who were to play with me.
I mean, as a long-term strategy of name recognition, it seems like that was... Not a bad idea. Right.
Well, it's funny. A lot of these 25 years have been just looking back. And I'm not a huge person who sticks to nostalgia and to looking back very often. So really, the truth is that useful music... has been the first time I have really looked back at it. We were going to release it as a 20th anniversary, and I wasn't doing any of these things for it. It was going to be a celebration five years ago. But because I had those five years, I was thinking about all of the things that would be sort of fun to do with the group and also looking back on that time, which I for me, is incredible because I had one foot in the old music industry and one foot in what was going to be the industry that we probably know now, which is, you know, consolidated radio, home recording, and Napster at that time, and, you know, which would lead to streaming.
And so much has changed.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the story behind the Silver Anniversary re‑recording of “Camera One”?
0:06–8:33
2
How did the “Goodbye Berlin” single evolve from a cancelled show to a post‑COVID release?
8:33–20:32
3
What inspired the lyrical and musical choices on “History of I Do”?
20:32–30:57
4
Why does “Juniper” capture the nightlife of 1990s Atlanta and what does it mean to Josh today?
30:57–37:40
5
How did Josh assemble the band and arrange the instrumentation for the Gap Year tracks?
37:40–50:24
6
What role did vintage gear and jazz influences play in the sound of the 2025 recordings?
50:24–59:35
7
Why does Josh consider himself a “one‑hit wonder” and how has his vocal range changed over the years?
59:35–1:07:25
8
What is the meaning behind the final folk tune “High, Low & Wide” and how does it close the episode?
1:07:25–1:15:36
Speakers
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